Candle Supplies
What would Christmas be without snowballs? So, what better
scented gift to give, then primitive snowballs that will last
all year
This is an breezy, simple craft to do and you will receive hours
of enjoyment in making snowballs. I warn you this can be
addictive.
It is just like being a kid all over again, when you create one
of these delightfully cool snowballs or icicles.
Make old fashion Vintage looking Winter icicles, snowballs, and
snowflakes for Christmas or Winter Weddings. A bowl of festive
snowballs or icicles make a wonderful center piece for festive
occasions. Surround yours with candle light.
They are fast, fun, and best of all, easy. Get ready to have a
great afternoon with the kids in the kitchen.
Maybe you can even make a little extra money at the next craft
show.
These creative primitive grungy crafts look great as decorations
in your country decor. Try placing them in baskets, old
primitive boxes, old pans, wooden dough bowls. Add a sprig or
two of Christmas green, pinecones, a few red berries dried, or
use your imagination and see what you can come up with.
I have no idea when my mother first discovered the recipe for
making primitive snowballs, but I assure you she was not the
creator.
My mother loved to find new crafts for us to do every year at
Christmas and this was my favorite. I loved those times with my
family, the 1950's and 60's. Moms were mom and dads were dads. I
hope you will find this recipe will bring hours or joy with your
family, as it did with mine.
Make your snowballs in all sizes. You can use the Winter
Traditional White coloring or make the Down and Dirty Grungy
Snowballs. You can have them scented or unscented, the choice is
yours. I love to add Prim glitter to mine. Gives them more of a
holiday feel and frankly, looks the big brown bowl on the white
table cloth, filled with snowballs, doesn't hurt the look.
These are very inexpensive to make and so easy, even your
children need very little supervision. Now if you are a
perfectionist, making these to sell at a craft show, you may
want to leave the children to their own side of the table.
Ok, here we go A Christmas Tradition with a Vintage Twist You
will need the following.
A pack of any size styrofoam balls found at any craft store or
craft section. The same recipe is used in making the icicles
too, but instead of styrofoam balls use the cheap plastic
icicles. When making snowflakes, dab the compound on with a
sponge brush. Snowflakes can be purchased at most any store. The
cheap plastic kind.
White joint compound, found at any hardware store. (my mother
used drywall mix, but times have changed and I don't think we
need to add difficult mixing of drywall compound to the recipe)
German Glass Glitter, Mica Glitter, or Diamond Dust found at any
craft shop or on line. Grunging supplies
Real Nutmeg
Have a bowl of glitter ready on the side. Acrylic craft paint or
water based stain, brown is the preferred color, but don't be
afraid to experiment. Mix the following together: Joint compound
Candle scent, if you want your snowballs scented, the strength
is your choice, but a little goes a long way.
A few drops of the colored stain or acrylic paint -the color
choice is yours, winter blue, snowy white, creamy, or old
fashion winter white. Add nutmeg or cinnamon to your mixture if
you want little flecks of dirt added to your snowballs. Roll the
styrofoam balls generously in the joint compound mixture.
Then drop in the bowl of glitter glass (my personal favorite)
Make sure you coat the snowball evenly all around.
Pick it up, gently, and shake off the excess glitter. Place the
snowball on a pizza pan that is lined with old fashion wax
paper.
They have to dry for 2 or 3 days at the least. Make sure you
turn the balls over once or twice a day.
Tips for Packaging
Bag up 6 to 12 of the various sized snowballs in a cello bag
with a festive bow and the grungy primitive tag. Add a sprig of
green and a bow of twine and rag strips. You can get those bags
from the grocery store that are paper with the see through
plastic window in the front. Those make a great for display at
you craft show and are prefect for gift giving. Mix them with
the waxed dipped rag balls, fill a big old blue mason ball jars.
Add a vintage postcard strung on a ribbon. You can have a truly
primitive grungy Christmas gift that anyone would love. You
could even make a lamp with the old blue mason jar.
You can cut pieces of brown twine, sting the twine the icicles
and snowflakes for cool Vintage Old Time Christmas Ornaments.
Hang the ornaments on your old fashion Christmas tree.Put a hook
in the snowballs before you roll them in the glitter, grungy
mixture. The hook will dry solid in the snowballs. I like making
my own hooks from old rusty pieces of wire purchased from craft
stores.
Congradulations! See, it wasn't as hard as you thought it was
going to be. Anyone can make a snowball! Have fun and until next
time - craft on, from the candle making supplies team at
www.wicks-wax-scents.com